Not only is the man an entertainer, the Couch Slouch, Norman Chad, seems to have his mind in the right place.

Using his syndicated column — one I regularly find on WashingtonPost.com — the Slouch proceeded to explain his repeated denial to the University of Maryland, his alma mater, of any funds from his pocket to theirs. He, like many other scholarly minds, is fed up with D-I universities repeatedly cutting other scholar programs (in this case he mentions the media journal, American Journalism Review, run by the UMD Foundation) and giving their sports programs multi-million dollar boosts.

The man is onto something.

• Bonds hit career number 754 Friday night, making it only a matter of time before he finally puts one out on the road, gets booed by everyone, including Bud Selig (quietly, under his breath anyway), and hates the world that much more. At least one teammate is calling for the Dodgers, the Giants’ lead rival, to show B-squared some R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
• Tony Taylor, a co-defendant in the dogfighting trial involving Atlanta Falcons QB Michael Vick among others, took a deal today to plead guilty and work with the prosecution to pin down the NFL star. This is bad news for Vick, of course, not only because it’s pitting a former friend against him, but this gives another reason to the ”guilty until proven innocent” (PETA, Nike, Reebok, NFLShop, etc.) bandwagon to ride on. Heard it best this morning on Mike and Mike in the Morning from Michael Smith filling in, this is something we haven’t seen even in the trials of Ray Lewis and Leonard Little, star players who went on trial for taking the life of another human… and other than being amazed, I just want to say four important words: Don’t f*#k with PETA.
• Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn accepted their place in the baseball HOF this weekend, becoming two of the classiest men to ever be enshrined. C-Rip did his thing, showing 6-footers they could play SS and TG invented and abused the 5.5 hole (inbetween 3B and SS) until he hung up his cleats. 
• It wouldn’t be a day ending with the letter “y” if KG trade talks weren’t in the news
• Not notable to non DC folks, but the Wiz have given an offer to Andray Blatche, the young could-be-beast in the paint, somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 years, $9 mil – $12 mil (a few conflicting reports out). The young man’s got talent, he just needs to get more burn, via kissing up to Eddie Jordan and/or punching Brendon Haywood in the face Etan Thomas style.